This tool allows you to give an exact radius for the fillet, so I matched the radii to the drawing.Īfter that I had to create the top part of the Key, which was done exactly like the bottom. Then I rounded off all of the corners with the "fillet"-tool. Which of course were taken from the technical drawing I made earlier. To have the dimensions correct, I typed in the exact measurements. I already made the technical drawing of my Key, so now I transfer it to the 3D space.įirst of all, I created a new sketch and with the rectangle tool I drew out my initial shape. Now on to the 3D-Design part of this weeks assignment. Then my design looked like the picture below shows and I was done with the 2D-Design part of this weeks assignment! After that, I had to select all my measurements (by leftclick-dragging left) and change their layer via the "attributes" window. This requered me to add a new layer and change its color to yellow. I repeated this process for all of the edges of my design until it looked like the picture below.īut I noticed, that the readability of the drawing was suffering, so I decided to change the color of all my measurements to yellow. The tool is easy to use, you just have to specify two points and it creates a lable with the distance of those points, which you can then move wherever you want. For that I used the "aligned" measure tool together with "endpoint snapping". To make my design viable as a technical drawing, I had to add the relevant measurements. This is straight forward as well, since I also only used the "2 Points" line tool, basic gridsnapping and the "fillet" tool. To actually create the arc, I now had to select a starting point, a point which basically determined the radius of my arc and an ending point.Īt this point, the only view left to do was the sideview. Since I already added fillets, I couldn't use the "gridsnap" anymore so I changed it to the "endpoint-snap". I didn't want a flat top though, so I deleted the top edge of my design and used the "3 Point arc"- tool, to create a concave rounding at the top of the key. The same functions were used to create it as you can see.įirst I drew out the sketch with the "2 Points" tool and then I added fillets to the corners. Then I could move on to creating the front view of my key. To create it, I again used the "2 Points" function in conjunction with the "gridsnap".Īfter that I needed to round the corners of the top part, which I did exactly like before by using the "fillet" tool. Since the top part of the key is supposed to be smaller than the bottom part, you can see its outline in the technical drawing.
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I decided to have a radius of 2mm for the top corners and a radius of 1mm for the bottom ones. It works pretty self explanatory as you just have to select the two edges where you want your fillet to be.
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Then I used the "fillet"-tool to round off the corners of my design. That way it was very easy to create my starting-quad which has a width and length of 20mm. Furthermore I enabled the "Gridsnapping"-feature so my lines were accurate. To do that, I used the simple "2 Points" tool, to create a line between to points. I had to start somewhere so I decided to map out the top view of the key as a first step. (= relative to the last position at an angle of 10 degrees at a given length of 10 units long).I do all of the following things in the software "LibreCAD". * Polar coordinates can be either absolute or relative, the < sign is used to represent an angle - e.g. * The method that tesco is talking about is currently not available in LibreCAD yet! The only method of achieving this at the moment is by either using the 'Horizontal lines' tool (by entering values into the 'Length' field') or as Claude suggests - by entering either absolute 10,10 (= 10 units in X direction, 10 units in Y direction from absolute origin 0,0) or relative (= 10 units in x and y direction 'relative' from the last position!) 'Horizontal Lines' or 'Circle with center and radius' - automatically you will be offered different options (length, radius etc.) where you can enter values in fields. Hi tesco, In my very limited knowledge isn't there a box in the "Pen selection" bar where you can specify the length you want?įor info: The 'Pen' selection tool bar is referring to line weight, line colour and line width.